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Why do couples keep having the same arguments, even when they love each other? What if the real reason you're fighting has very little to do with what's happening today—and everything to do with wounds from your childhood?

In this powerful conversation, JJ Flizanes welcomes Harville Hendrix and Helen LaKelly Hunt, creators of Imago Relationship Therapy and bestselling authors of Getting the Love You Want, to explore childhood core wounds, unconscious relationship patterns, and the emotional triggers that keep couples repeating the same conflicts.

Harville and Helen share their personal stories, the origins of Imago Therapy, and how their own relationship struggles helped shape a revolutionary approach to communication and healing. Harville also reveals a newer insight about the difference between managing relationship power struggles and moving beyond them into real love.

JJ shares how discovering the Imago Core Wound Exercise nearly a decade ago became the foundation for her Core Wound Map® and Rewiring Your Core Wound Patterns program—helping people uncover the subconscious beliefs and survival strategies influencing their relationships, health, happiness, and sense of self.

• Why childhood wounds show up as emotional triggers in adult relationships.
• How unmet childhood needs influence who we choose as partners and why we fight.
• The fascinating origins of Imago Relationship Therapy.
• Why understanding your past isn't always enough to change your patterns.
• How listening, mirroring, validation, and empathy can transform communication.
• The difference between managing conflict and experiencing real love.
• How identifying your core wounds can help you change repeating emotional and relationship patterns.

The biggest takeaway? The argument you're having today may be connected to a wound you experienced decades ago. Real emotional healing isn't simply understanding why you react—it's learning to respond differently.

As JJ says, "Healing is when you are different in the same situation."

1. Core Wound Map® Founders Experience

Join JJ's exclusive six-week Founders Experience beginning November 1 and help shape the Core Wound Map while discovering the hidden patterns influencing your life.

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2. Pre-Order JJ's New Core Wound Book

Be part of the book's pre-launch campaign, explore exclusive bonuses, and support bringing this transformative work to a wider audience.

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3. Three-Month Private One-on-One Coaching

Work personally with JJ to identify your core wounds, understand your emotional patterns, and develop a personalized roadmap for lasting change.

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4. Rewiring Your Core Wound Patterns — 2027 Program

Ready for a deeper transformation? Apply for JJ's nine-month Rewire program and learn to change the subconscious patterns driving your emotional reactions, relationships, and self-sabotage.

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What if the biggest thing keeping you in your relationship isn't love—but fear?

Deciding whether to stay in a marriage or end a relationship can be one of the most emotionally challenging decisions you'll ever make. Fear of hurting someone, being alone, making the wrong choice, or facing the unknown can keep you from moving forward—even when you know something needs to change.

In this episode of Spirit, Purpose & Energy, JJ Flizanes welcomes back Meagan Sardana, a recent graduate of her nine-month Rewiring Your Core Wound Patterns program, for a deeply personal conversation about divorce, childhood wounds, emotional healing, and reclaiming your power.

After years of contemplating the end of her marriage, Meagan shares how understanding her Core Wound Map helped her recognize the fears and avoidance patterns influencing her decisions. With new tools, support, and a different perspective, she found the courage to have difficult conversations, establish boundaries, and begin transitioning out of her marriage.

But this conversation isn't about encouraging anyone to get divorced.

It's about learning to make decisions from clarity and self-worth rather than fear and old emotional wounds.

• How childhood wounds influence your marriage, relationships, and decisions.
• Why fear of confrontation, rejection, or abandonment can keep you from making changes.
• How Meagan used the Couple's Dialogue tool to navigate a difficult conversation with her husband.
• Why ending a relationship doesn't automatically end the emotional patterns that shaped it.
• How to recognize avoidance, suppression, and other survival patterns.
• Why understanding your Core Wound Map can help you establish boundaries and reclaim your personal power.
• The difference between talking about change and actually living differently.

Whether you're contemplating divorce, navigating a relationship transition, or simply tired of repeating the same emotional patterns, this conversation offers a new perspective on what it means to heal.

Because healing isn't necessarily about changing your circumstances. It's about becoming different in the same situation.

Core Wound Map Book & Founders Experience

Discover the unconscious emotional patterns influencing your life. Learn about JJ's upcoming book and the six-week Core Wound Map Founders Experience beginning November 1, 2026.

https://www.jjflizanes.com/map

Rewiring Your Core Wound Patterns — 2027

Applications are now open for JJ's immersive nine-month program, designed to help you move beyond awareness and practice lasting change.

https://www.jjflizanes.com/apply

5 Levels to Restore Health — November 6–8, 2026

Join JJ and special guest Dr. William Davis in Redondo Beach for a transformational weekend exploring healing on five levels: physical, emotional, mental, relational and environmental, and spiritual.

https://www.jjflizanes.com/restore

Connect with JJ Flizanes

Website: https://www.jjflizanes.com

Remember: You don't transform your life by understanding it differently. You transform it by LIVING differently.

What happens when you stop simply understanding your emotional triggers and start changing the patterns behind them?

In this week's episode, I'm joined by six women who have just completed my nine-month Rewiring Your Core Wound Patterns program. And instead of me telling you what this work can do, you're going to hear directly from the women who experienced it.

Each woman came into this journey with her own history, emotional patterns, relationships, and reasons for wanting change. Nine months later, they're sharing what shifted, what surprised them, and how they're responding differently to situations that once triggered them.

Because understanding why you feel the way you do is one thing. Actually becoming different in the same situation is something else entirely.

• Why identifying your childhood wounds is only the beginning of emotional healing
• How unconscious emotional patterns influence relationships, confidence, self-worth, and everyday reactions
• What happens when you move beyond collecting information and begin practicing new emotional responses
• How six women experienced changes in their relationships, boundaries, communication, and self-trust
• Why rewiring core wound patterns requires repetition, awareness, support, and real-life application
• The difference between managing your emotional triggers and changing how you respond to them
• Why healing isn't about becoming perfect—it's about creating more freedom, peace, love, joy, and possibility

These women share personal experiences of becoming more confident, speaking up, navigating difficult conversations, recognizing their emotional reactions, and allowing themselves to show up differently in their lives.

Healing is when you are different in the same situation.

And this conversation gives you a glimpse of what that can actually look like.

1. Pre-Order Your Core Wound Map

My new book, Your Core Wound Map, is now available through its pre-launch campaign, with special courses, experiences, and bonuses.

Explore the campaign and reserve your copy:

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2. Join the Core Wound Map Founders Experience — Starts November 1, 2026

I'm inviting a small group of people who are new to this work to experience the Core Wound Map process with me over six weeks. This is an opportunity to identify your core wounds, understand your emotional patterns, and contribute to the evolution of the process.

Only 12 spaces remain.

Learn more and reserve your place:

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3. Apply for Rewiring Your Core Wound Patterns — 2027

If you're ready to go beyond identifying your wounds and commit to the deeper work of changing your emotional responses, applications for the next nine-month Rewire program are available.

Apply for the 2027 Rewire program:

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You don't have to spend the rest of your life responding to the world through the wounds of your past.

Your history may explain your patterns, but it doesn't have to determine your future.

What if you’ve done years of personal growth, therapy, healing, and self-development—and you’re still getting triggered by the same things?

In this week’s episode, I’m doing something a little different. I’m handing the microphone over to my dear friend, Empowerment Strategist, and host of the Open Heart Healing Podcast, Vesta Hurlbutt, to interview ME about the work that has become such a huge part of my life: the Core Wound Map.

Vesta has been part of this journey almost from the beginning. She has experienced the Core Wound work herself, trained in the process, and watched it evolve over the years—so she was the perfect person to ask me the question:

Why now? Why is it finally time for this book?

The truth is, I thought I was writing a book. What I realized along the way was that I was actually creating a process—one that could help people identify the core wounds underneath their triggers, recognize the patterns those wounds created, and begin changing the way they respond.

Because identifying your wounds is only the beginning.

In this conversation, we talk about:

• How the Core Wound Map evolved from my own experience with Imago work into the process I use today
• Why understanding your patterns can change the way you look at your triggers, relationships, and past
• The difference between identifying a core wound and actually rewiring the pattern
• Why you can intellectually understand where your reactions come from and still continue having them
• Why our relationships can become powerful opportunities for healing old wounds
• The role of support, stretching, and practice in creating new responses
• Why this book has taken me years to complete—and why I finally know it’s ready
• Learning to trust your intuition even when other people don’t understand the timing
• Why I’m especially interested in helping people who have already done a LOT of work on themselves and are wondering, “Why am I still getting triggered?”

Your Core Wound Map: Why You’re Still Getting Triggered After All the Work You’ve Done—and What Will Finally Change It is officially in pre-launch.

And this isn’t simply about pre-ordering a book.

During the pre-launch, there are opportunities to go deeper, experience the Core Wound Map process, access special bonuses, and even help me test and refine some of the newest pieces of the work before the final book is published.

If you’ve been doing the work but know there’s another layer you haven’t uncovered yet, I created this for you.

Learn more and join the pre-launch here:

https://www.jjflizanes.com/map

Vesta is the host of the Open Heart Healing Podcast, where she explores emotional healing, nutrition, menopause, personal growth, and the everyday trigger moments that can become opportunities to understand and heal ourselves more deeply.

Search for Open Heart Healing Podcast wherever you listen to podcasts.

And remember:

Healing is when you are different in the same situation.

What if the problem isn’t that you haven’t found the right diet yet?

For decades, we’ve been taught to measure health by weight, clothing size, calories and the number on the scale. But what happens when the pursuit of weight loss actually pulls us further away from our health—and from ourselves?

In this episode, JJ welcomes back nutritionist, behavior specialist and author Carrie Lupoli for a powerful conversation about diet culture, body image, GLP-1s, self-worth and the beliefs that drive so many of our choices around food and our bodies.

Carrie shares the philosophy behind her new book, From Corset to Crown, and the difference between making health decisions from the “corset”—restriction, fear, self-sacrifice and the need for outside approval—and making those same decisions from the “crown” of self-worth, self-love and self-leadership.

Because losing weight and becoming healthier are not necessarily the same goal.

JJ and Carrie explore why reaching a “goal weight” doesn’t automatically create confidence, happiness or self-worth; why our culture is so quick to compliment weight loss without asking what is happening underneath it; and why changing your relationship with your body may be just as important as changing what you eat.

They also discuss GLP-1 medications and the current obsession with weight loss, blood sugar stabilization, diet mentality, emotional eating, body image, cultural conditioning and the deeper question we rarely stop to ask:

Why do I want to lose weight—and what do I believe will finally be different about me when I do?

In this episode, you’ll hear more about:

• The difference between weight loss and true health
• How diet culture connects body size to self-worth
• Why getting to your “goal weight” may not make you happier
• GLP-1s and our cultural obsession with getting smaller
• Blood sugar stabilization and sustainable nutrition
• Why the motivation underneath your health choices matters
• How childhood messages can shape body image and self-worth
• The connection between self-sacrifice, stress and abandoning your own needs
• Why meal plans and diets alone rarely address the deeper issue
• How to identify whether a choice is coming from your “corset” or your “crown”
• Why self-awareness, self-love and self-leadership belong in the health conversation
• A different definition of what it means for a diet or health strategy to actually “work”

Carrie asks three powerful questions that can begin changing your relationship with food and your body: What do you want? Why do you want it? And what is your definition of “working”?

Because if “working” means having peace around food, understanding how to fuel your body, feeling healthy and knowing your worth, the number on the scale can’t be the only measurement that matters.

ABOUT CARRIE LUPOLI

Carrie Lupoli is a nutritionist, behavior specialist, educator, speaker and author whose work challenges traditional diet culture and helps women create a healthier relationship with food, their bodies and themselves. Her new book, From Corset to Crown, explores how women can move away from restriction, self-sacrifice and external validation and toward self-worth, self-awareness and empowered health choices.

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Learn more about Carrie Lupoli and From Corset to Crown:

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At the time of this episode’s release, pre-orders of From Corset to Crown before October 6, 2026 include special bonuses such as immediate access to the e-book, a 10-episode companion podcast, a discussion guide and access to Carrie’s pre-order community. Additional resources connected to the book are also available through her website.

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In this episode, JJ Flizanes sits down with New York Times bestselling author Dr. William Davis to challenge some of the long-standing rules we’ve been taught about weight loss, health and healing.

From the century-old “eat less, move more” mentality to the growing understanding of the microbiome, inflammation, nervous system and emotional health, JJ and Dr. Davis explore why restoring health requires looking beyond symptoms—and sometimes questioning the very advice we’ve been told to follow.

Dr. Davis shares why calorie restriction and conventional weight-loss thinking can fail people long-term, and how the microbiome may influence far more than digestion—including mood, behavior, metabolism and overall health.

JJ expands the conversation beyond the physical body, exploring the relationship between our emotional state, nervous system and physical health. Healing isn’t always an outside-in process or an inside-out process—it may require understanding both.

In this episode, you’ll discover:

• Why it may be time to question some of the health “rules” we’ve accepted as fact
• Why eating less isn’t necessarily the answer to sustainable weight loss
• How your microbiome can influence your health in unexpected ways
• The connection between emotions, the nervous system and physical symptoms
• Why addressing only the physical—or only the emotional—can leave important pieces of the puzzle untouched
• How becoming more informed and curious about your body can help you take a more active role in your health
• Why personalization, community and understanding the whole person matter when creating lasting change

Take these conversations much deeper in person with JJ Flizanes and Dr. William Davis aboard the New Body Blueprint Cruise, February 27–March 7, 2027.

Spend 8 days in the Caribbean combining vacation, community and an immersive exploration of the body, microbiome, health and healing. The educational programming takes place primarily during the days at sea, leaving plenty of time to enjoy the ports and the experience of being together in person.

Learn more and reserve your cabin:

https://www.thenewbodyblueprint.com

Join JJ Flizanes in Redondo Beach, California for an intimate transformational weekend exploring the 5 Levels to Restore Health: Physical, Emotional, Mental, Relational & Environmental, and Spiritual.

Dr. William Davis will join JJ to teach the physical level as the weekend explores how the different pieces of your health interact—and what may be missing when you’ve been working hard on your health but still feel stuck.

November 6–8, 2026 | Redondo Beach, California

Learn more and register:

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SPECIAL PODCAST DISCOUNT:

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Space is intentionally limited to create more opportunity for interaction, personalization and deeper transformation.

What if the discomfort you’re experiencing isn’t a sign that something has gone wrong—but an indication that something is ready to change?

Most of us want to get rid of discomfort as quickly as possible. We distract ourselves, numb it, push through it, treat the symptom, blame the circumstances, or retreat back into familiar patterns. But whether your discomfort is physical, emotional, relational, or simply a feeling that you’re stuck, frustrated, anxious, or disconnected, it may be trying to get your attention.

In this episode, JJ Flizanes explores why discomfort can become the catalyst for some of our greatest breakthroughs—and why we often don’t make meaningful changes until staying where we are becomes more uncomfortable than moving forward.

JJ shares examples from her own recent healing journey and relationships to illustrate how an uncomfortable experience can expose deeper beliefs, fears, core wounds, and patterns we may not have realized were running our lives.

Because when fear is making your decisions, fear has the power. But when you become willing to examine what’s underneath the fear, you have the opportunity to choose something different.

In this episode, you’ll discover:

• Why physical and emotional discomfort can be valuable information
• How fear, resistance, and control can keep you repeating old patterns
• Why treating the symptom may not address what’s happening underneath it
• How your subconscious beliefs and core wounds influence what you allow yourself to receive
• Why vulnerability can require more strength than staying in control
• How discomfort can create the opening for new awareness and new neural pathways
• Why feeling stuck, frustrated, anxious, or “off” may actually mean you’re ready for change
• How leaning into discomfort instead of running from it can become the beginning of your breakthrough

JJ also connects this conversation to the Core Wound Map and the importance of identifying the beliefs underneath our habitual reactions. You can’t change a pattern you don’t know is there—and understanding the root gives you a place to begin.

Your discomfort doesn’t have to be something you fear or immediately try to escape.

It may be an invitation.

You may not be falling apart. You may be standing at the edge of your next breakthrough.

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What if simply allowing yourself to imagine something different could change the energy of your relationship—and your life—before you ever actually did anything?

In this episode, JJ Flizanes is joined once again by Doug Sandler for a candid continuation of their conversation about sexual chemistry, intimacy, desire, manifestation, and what has shifted dramatically in their relationship over the last 30 days.

And here's the surprising part: the biggest transformation didn't begin with an action. It began with an idea.

A sexual fantasy opened the door to conversations, anticipation, vulnerability, excitement, fear, and an entirely different energy between JJ and Doug. That experience became a real-life example of something JJ has taught for years through the Law of Attraction: if you want to experience a new reality, you have to begin accessing the thoughts, emotions, and energy of that reality before you have physical evidence that it exists.

JJ and Doug also explore a question most of us rarely stop to consider:

Who actually taught you how to have sex?

Most people receive very little education about sexual pleasure, communication, desire, or understanding their own bodies. Yet somehow, we're expected to enter relationships knowing what we want—and knowing how to give our partner what they want.

Doug shares openly about the male perspective, including performance anxiety, the pressure to know how to please your partner, and what happens when your partner doesn't necessarily know how to tell you what they want either.

JJ also explores the connection between sexual energy, creativity, relationships, manifestation, the nervous system, and physical health—and why sexual expression may be an important part of the bigger conversation about whole-person health.

This episode isn't simply about having more sex. It's about becoming curious about the parts of yourself you may never have explored, creating enough safety in a relationship to communicate honestly, and allowing yourself to try on a new possibility.

Because sometimes you don't have to know exactly where something is going. Giving yourself permission to imagine, explore, and try something new may be enough to shift your energy—and begin creating a completely different experience.

• How one fantasy changed the energy of JJ and Doug's relationship
• Why anticipation and imagination can be incredibly powerful
• How to use Law of Attraction to access a reality that doesn't exist yet
• Why trying something new can change the way you think, feel, and behave
• Why most adults were never actually taught how to have good sex
• Sexual exploration and discovering what turns you on
• Why your partner may not know how to tell you what they need
• The pressure men can experience around sexual performance
• How sexual dissatisfaction can affect the rest of a relationship
• The connection between sexual energy, creativity, vitality, and health
• Creating safety for honest conversations with your partner
• Why these same principles can apply to sex, money, health, career, and other areas of your life

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What if the reason you’re not fully healing isn’t because you haven’t tried hard enough—but because you’ve been focusing on only one level of health?

In this episode, JJ introduces the inspiration behind her upcoming live event, The 5 Levels to Restore Health, and revisits a powerful conversation with Dr. Miriam Rahav exploring Dr. Dietrich Klinghardt’s 5 Levels of Healing.

The original framework proposes that healing extends far beyond the physical body. And while nutrition, movement, sleep, the microbiome, metabolic health, and other physical interventions are essential, they may represent only one piece of a much larger picture.

JJ shares how this concept has influenced the way she now looks at health and healing—and why she believes the different levels must work in both directions. Your thoughts, emotions, nervous system, relationships, and environment can affect your physical health, while your physical health can profoundly influence your mood, resilience, emotional regulation, and ability to heal.

This is the foundation for JJ’s expanded approach to the five levels: Physical, Mental, Emotional, Relational & Environmental, and Purpose & Spiritual.

• Dr. Dietrich Klinghardt’s original Five Levels of Healing framework
• Why addressing physical symptoms alone may not create lasting healing
• How the physical, mental, emotional, relational, environmental, and spiritual aspects of health intersect
• Why the body can affect emotional healing just as emotional stress can affect the body
• The role of the nervous system, beliefs, perception, and environment in health
• Why one healing tool or modality may not be the answer for every person—or every level
• How to begin identifying the level of healing that may be asking for your attention
• Why healing requires more than accumulating information—it requires integration and experience

As you listen, consider two important questions:

Which level have you spent the MOST time trying to heal?

And perhaps more importantly…

Which level have you almost completely ignored?

November 6–8, 2026 | Redondo Beach, California

JJ is bringing this framework to life in an intimate, interactive weekend designed to move beyond information and into experience, integration, and transformation.

Special guest Dr. William Davis, New York Times bestselling author of Wheat Belly, Super Gut, and Undoctored, will join JJ to explore the physical foundations of restoring health.

Throughout the weekend, you’ll explore all five levels through science, practical frameworks, guided exercises, meaningful conversations, and experiential learning designed to help you discover what may be missing from your own healing journey.

Attendance is intentionally limited to approximately 40–50 people.

Learn more and reserve your seat:

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Get 50% off before Sept 1st with code: 5LEVELS50

Your body is part of your healing story—but it may not be the whole story.

What level is asking for your attention?

What happens when you love your partner, have a strong relationship, and genuinely enjoy your life together—but the sexual chemistry just isn’t there anymore?

Losing desire doesn’t necessarily mean you’ve fallen out of love. Sometimes, what’s missing is polarity—the energetic charge created when two people are connected without becoming so blended that there’s no longer any space, mystery, or tension between them.

In this candid conversation, JJ Flizanes and Doug Sandler are joined by sex and relationship expert Dr. Jane Guyn to explore what creates sexual polarity, why it can disappear in long-term relationships, and what couples can do to begin bringing attraction, desire, and playfulness back.

Dr. Jane explains that when couples become completely merged—doing everything together, knowing everything about each other, and functioning almost as one unit—it can become difficult to experience the separation necessary for erotic charge. Creating healthy physical and emotional space can actually help couples rediscover each other.

JJ and Doug also share openly about their own relationship and the changes they’ve experienced by becoming more conscious of masculine and feminine energy, creating space for individuality, communicating more clearly about what they want, and allowing intimacy to become playful rather than something that has to be performed correctly.

• What sexual polarity actually means and why it matters
• Why loving someone and desiring someone aren't always the same thing
• How becoming too merged with your partner can diminish attraction
• Why having your own interests, experiences, and space can create more mystery and sexual charge
• Masculine and feminine energy—and why polarity isn't simply about gender
• Why high-achieving women who spend much of their lives leading, deciding, organizing, and getting things done may have difficulty shifting into receiving
• How men can step more confidently into initiation without women having to make themselves smaller
• The importance of communicating what you actually want instead of expecting your partner to figure it out
• How performance anxiety, shame, and fear of doing something “wrong” can cause partners to avoid intimacy altogether
• Why safety, trust, patience, and curiosity create room for sexual exploration
• How playfulness can help take sex out of the realm of pressure and performance
• Why bringing the spark back isn't necessarily about having more sex—it's about creating a different dynamic between you

One of the biggest takeaways from this conversation is that a partner who appears to want less sex may not necessarily want less sex—they may want less of the sex that's currently being offered. That opens an entirely different conversation about desire, communication, pleasure, and what each person actually needs.

Sexual chemistry doesn't have to disappear simply because you've been together for years. Sometimes the people capable of creating an entirely new level of intimacy are already there—you just have to create the safety, space, communication, and polarity that allow those parts of you to come forward.

Connect with Dr. Jane Guyn:

HowToFixMySexLife.com — Learn more about Dr. Jane’s work with individuals and couples around intimacy, sexual connection, desire, and relationships.

Dr Jane's Guided Meditation on Insight Timer: https://insig.ht/1rvXix5zu5b

Ready to explore what might be missing in your relationship? Listen now to How to Bring Sexual Chemistry Back Into Your Relationship.

You may be getting everything done. You’re showing up for work, taking care of your responsibilities, exercising, eating well, and doing all the things you’ve been told will make you healthier.

But what if your body is telling you a different story?

In this episode, JJ explores the difference between actually healing and simply becoming really good at coping or high functioning. Poor sleep, digestive issues, constant worry, difficulty recovering, recurring illness or injury, chronic tension, emotional reactivity, and a lack of joy can all be signals worth paying attention to.

And healing works in both directions. Your mental and emotional state can influence your physical health—but your physical health can also affect your mood, resilience, energy, and ability to regulate your emotions.

JJ introduces the 5 Levels to Restore Health—Physical, Mental, Emotional, Relational & Environmental, and Purpose & Spiritual—and invites you to consider whether you've been trying to address your health through only one level while another has been asking for your attention.

• The difference between healing, coping, and high functioning
• Physical signs that your system may be struggling
• Why knowing your patterns doesn't necessarily mean you've healed them
• How sleep, digestion, stress, inflammation, and recovery can affect emotional health
• How thoughts, emotions, relationships, and environment can influence the body
• Why healing needs to work in both directions
• How to identify which of the Five Levels may be missing from your healing journey
• Why healing is when you become different in the same situation

Discover whether you're creating lasting change—or simply getting better at functioning around patterns that haven't changed.

https://jjflizanes.com/stuck

November 6–8, 2026 | Redondo Beach, California

Join JJ Flizanes for an intimate, interactive weekend exploring the five interconnected levels that influence your health and ability to heal. Inspired by Dr. Dietrich Klinghardt's Five Levels of Healing and expanded with science and practical applications in functional health, neuroscience, epigenetics, nervous system regulation, emotional healing, relationships, and purpose.

Special guest Dr. William Davis, bestselling author of Wheat Belly and Super Gut, will join JJ to explore the physical foundations of restoring health.

Early Bird: 50% off through September 1st.

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In this deeply personal episode, JJ Flizanes and Doug Sandler pull back the curtain on a recent conflict in their own relationship to demonstrate how emotional triggers can either create distance or become powerful opportunities for healing. Rather than teaching theory, they walk listeners through a real-life example of misunderstanding, emotional reactivity, and ultimately reconnection.

JJ explains that triggers are rarely about what another person actually says or does. Instead, they activate old wounds and unconscious beliefs that shape how we interpret situations. By slowing down, asking better questions, and understanding both our own emotional patterns and those of others, conflict becomes a doorway to greater intimacy rather than separation.

Throughout the conversation, JJ introduces five powerful questions to ask whenever you're emotionally triggered, along with practical tools like mirroring, the Feelings & Needs List, and Couples Dialogue to help move from survival mode back into conscious connection. Doug offers the perspective of someone experiencing the trigger in real time, making this an honest and relatable conversation for anyone navigating relationships.

• Why triggers are based on interpretation—not facts.
• How unresolved core wounds filter everything we hear.
• The difference between what someone says and what we believe they mean.
• Why couples often argue about the story instead of the real unmet need.
• How to identify the wound or belief activated by a trigger.
• Why understanding what's happening for the other person immediately changes the conversation.
• How emotional regulation moves you from your survival brain back into your conscious mind.
• Why healing requires curiosity instead of blame.
• How vulnerability creates deeper connection than defensiveness.
• The importance of meeting underlying needs instead of arguing over behaviors.

1. What did I actually interpret?
2. What wound or belief did that interpretation activate?
3. What's going on for the other person?
4. What feelings and unmet needs are underneath the story?
5. What would help us move toward connection instead of protection?

• JJ's Core Wound Map®
• Feelings & Needs List
• Couples Dialogue
• Three Steps to Untangle Messy Emotional Situations
• Rewiring Your Core Wound Patterns (Rewire) Program
• Terry Real's work on connection and relationships
• Whole Brain Living

Feelings & Needs List: https://jjflizanes.com/feelingslist

Three Steps to Untangle Messy Emotional Situations:

https://jjflizanes.com/3steps

Rewiring Your Core Wound Patterns:

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What if the biggest transformation wasn't the number on the scale?

In this special episode, I'm joined by several incredible women from my 8-Week Body Reset Beta to share what really happened when they committed to taking care of themselves for just eight weeks. While many joined hoping to release weight, what they experienced went far beyond smaller clothing sizes.

From increased energy and better sleep to improved mobility, healthier relationships with food, greater emotional resilience, and a renewed sense of confidence, these women discovered that lasting health is about so much more than dieting. They share their honest struggles, surprising breakthroughs, and the habits that finally felt sustainable after years—even decades—of trying everything else.

We also discuss why accountability, community, nervous system regulation, blood sugar balance, protein, and replacing foods rather than restricting them created results that felt realistic enough to continue long after the program ended.

If you've ever felt frustrated that diets don't last, wondered why your body isn't responding the way it used to, or are looking for a healthier, more compassionate approach to creating change, this conversation will leave you inspired and hopeful.

• Why sustainable health is about more than losing weight
• The unexpected physical, emotional, and mental changes participants experienced
• How improving blood sugar regulation changed energy, cravings, and mood
• The role of nervous system health in lasting body transformation
• Why community and accountability accelerate success
• How simple food swaps helped participants enjoy their favorite meals while supporting their goals
• Real stories of increased mobility, better sleep, reduced inflammation, improved confidence, and renewed motivation
• Why focusing on what to add—instead of what to eliminate—creates lasting change
• How changing your relationship with your body changes everything else

Whether you're looking to improve your metabolism, support your hormones, release stubborn weight, or simply feel stronger and more energized, this episode is proof that healing your body doesn't have to be about deprivation. Small, intentional changes—supported by the right education and community—can create results that ripple into every area of your life.

Resources Mentioned

• Date Your Body
• 8-Week Body Reset
• The Metabolic Transformation Studio https://jjflizanes.com/studio
• Rewiring Your Core Wound Patterns
• Continuous Glucose Monitor (CGM)
• Carnivore buns and other high-protein, low-carb recipe alternatives

If this episode inspires you, please subscribe, leave a review, and share it with someone who's ready to stop chasing quick fixes and start building a healthier relationship with their body—one sustainable step at a time.

What if the biggest threat to your health isn't your genes—but the beliefs you've inherited?

In this thought-provoking conversation, Dr. Bruce Lipton returns to the show to challenge one of the most deeply ingrained ideas in modern science: that our genes determine our destiny. Drawing on decades of research in epigenetics, cell biology, and quantum science, Bruce explains why our environment, our perceptions, and our subconscious programming have a far greater influence on our biology than we've been led to believe.

But this conversation goes far beyond personal health.

Bruce shares why humanity is standing at an evolutionary crossroads. The outdated belief in competition, scarcity, and survival of the fittest has shaped not only our healthcare system, but our economy, relationships, and society as a whole. If we continue operating from those beliefs, we risk creating the very future we fear. Yet by shifting our thinking—from fear to cooperation, from victimhood to personal responsibility—we have the power to transform both our lives and the future of our planet.

Together, JJ and Bruce explore how subconscious programming formed in early childhood influences nearly every decision we make, why so many people unknowingly sabotage their own health and relationships, and how becoming conscious of these patterns is the first step toward real healing.

If you've ever felt limited by your family history, discouraged by your circumstances, or wondered whether one person can truly make a difference, this episode offers both scientific insight and genuine hope.

• Why your genes are not your destiny—and what actually influences gene expression.
• The difference between genetic determinism and epigenetics.
• How your subconscious programming shapes up to 95% of your daily life.
• Why changing your perception can change your biology.
• The connection between thoughts, emotions, stress, and physical health.
• How childhood conditioning influences your relationships, behaviors, and life outcomes.
• Why Bruce believes humanity must evolve from competition to cooperation.
• How quantum science supports the idea that our beliefs influence our reality.
• Practical ways to reclaim your personal power and begin creating a healthier future for yourself—and for humanity.

Whether you're passionate about health, personal growth, consciousness, or creating a better world, this conversation will challenge what you think you know about biology and leave you with a renewed sense of possibility.

Resources:

• Dr. Bruce Lipton's new book: Beyond Darwin
• Learn more about Dr. Bruce Lipton at brucelipton.com
• Connect with JJ Flizanes at jjflizanes.com

For decades, we've been told that reshaping our bodies comes down to one simple formula: eat less and exercise more. But what if that advice is incomplete—or even keeping you stuck?

In this episode, JJ Flizanes is joined once again by cardiologist and microbiome pioneer Dr. William Davis to explore the emerging science that's changing how we think about body composition, metabolism, aging, and long-term health. Together, they challenge the outdated focus on weight loss alone and introduce a more comprehensive approach to creating a healthier, stronger, and more resilient body.

You'll discover why simply losing weight isn't enough—and how protecting your muscle, restoring your gut, regulating your nervous system, and reducing inflammation are all essential pieces of the puzzle.

Dr. Davis explains the fascinating connections between the gut microbiome, liver function, insulin resistance, muscle mass, and abdominal fat, while JJ shares why unresolved emotional stress and nervous system dysregulation can prevent healing even when you're eating well and exercising consistently.

Whether you're trying to lose fat, improve your energy, reverse metabolic dysfunction, navigate menopause, or simply age with strength and vitality, this conversation offers a fresh perspective on what's really driving your health.

• Why "lose weight" is an outdated and potentially harmful health goal
• The difference between losing weight and reshaping your body
• How preserving and building muscle protects your metabolism and longevity
• The newly discovered gut-muscle, gut-liver, and gut-brain connections
• Why insulin resistance begins long before diabetes
• The hidden role your microbiome plays in fat storage and fatty liver
• Why exercise recommendations need to be far more specific than "move more"
• How resistance training supports healthy aging without creating bulky muscles
• The impact of chronic stress, cortisol, and fight-or-flight on digestion, fat storage, and healing
• Why emotional regulation is a critical missing piece in lasting body transformation
• Environmental factors—including microplastics, PFAS, and pesticides—that may be influencing your health
• Practical ways to measure progress beyond the number on the scale
• How new science is reshaping our understanding of metabolic health and longevity

Your body isn't simply responding to calories in versus calories out. It's responding to your microbiome, nervous system, hormones, muscle mass, inflammation, environmental exposures, and emotional state.

True body transformation isn't about becoming smaller—it's about becoming healthier, stronger, more metabolically flexible, and creating an internal environment where healing can actually occur.

• The New Body Blueprint Cruise (February 2027)
• The upcoming New Body Blueprint online home study program
• Gut microbiome restoration
• Small Intestinal Bacterial Overgrowth (SIBO)
• Insulin resistance
• Fatty liver
• Resistance training and muscle preservation
• Nervous system regulation
• Radical Remission research
• Environmental toxins and metabolic health

Website: https://jjflizanes.com

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How do you know if your healing is actually working?

It's not when you understand your wounds intellectually. It's not when you've read all the books, listened to all the podcasts, or can explain your patterns.

Real healing is when you're different in the same situation.

In this inspiring client spotlight episode, JJ sits down with Traci, a school social worker and longtime member of multiple JJ Flizanes programs, to discuss the profound shifts she's experienced through Rewiring Your Core Wound Patterns, Date Your Body, Heal the Mother Wound, and the 8-Week Body Reset.

Traci shares how years of people-pleasing, self-abandonment, perfectionism, and nervous system dysregulation kept her stuck in cycles of reactivity and exhaustion. Through deep emotional healing work, she began identifying the root causes beneath her patterns and learning how to meet her own needs instead of waiting for others to change.

The true test of her transformation came during a recent family reunion—a setting that had historically triggered old wounds, competition for attention, and emotional reactivity. This time, she discovered something powerful: she was different.

Instead of reacting, she paused.

Instead of seeking validation, she felt secure.

Instead of viewing love as scarce, she realized love is multiplied, not divided.

This conversation offers a real-life example of what emotional healing looks like in practice and how reclaiming self-trust, self-care, and inner safety can transform every area of life.

• How Traci moved from chronic fight, flight, freeze, and fawn into greater peace and regulation
• The difference between understanding your wounds and actually healing them
• Why self-abandonment often hides beneath abandonment wounds
• How learning to pause changed her relationships and decision-making
• The role of nervous system regulation in emotional healing
• Why more information isn't always the answer
• How perfectionism can keep you stuck and disconnected from yourself
• What it means to become "different in the same situation"
• The surprising lesson Traci learned at a family reunion
• How healing helped her stop taking responsibility for other people's emotions
• The connection between emotional healing, self-care, and physical health
• Why community and accountability accelerate transformation

Healing isn't about getting other people to change.

It's about changing your relationship to yourself.

When you learn to trust your inner guidance, meet your own needs, and stop abandoning yourself, the situations that once triggered you begin to lose their power. The people around you may not change—but your experience of them does.

As Traci beautifully shares, healing helped her realize that love is not a limited resource, that she is worthy exactly as she is, and that peace becomes available when she stops chasing approval and starts turning inward.

• Feelings & Needs List
• Rewiring Your Core Wound Patterns
• Date Your Body
• Heal the Mother Wound
• 8-Week Body Reset
• 3 Steps to Emotional Freedom Workshop http://jjflizanes.com/3steps
• Apply for Coaching: jjflizanes.com/apply

Website: jjflizanes.com

If this episode resonated with you, share it with someone who is tired of coping and ready to create real, lasting change. Healing happens when you become different in the same situation—and that transformation is possible for you too.

What happens when you've spent years reading personal development books, listening to podcasts, attending meetings, and collecting information—but still feel stuck?

In this heartfelt client spotlight episode, JJ sits down with Gosia to discuss her transformation from feeling frozen, overwhelmed, and unable to move forward to becoming more confident, self-aware, and empowered in her daily life.

Gosia shares how she first discovered JJ during one of the most difficult periods of her life while navigating divorce, and how years of personal growth work helped her survive—but not necessarily heal. Despite consuming countless self-help resources and participating in support groups, she still found herself feeling paralyzed, disconnected, and unsure how to create lasting change.

Everything shifted when she attended Unleashing Your Manifestation Power and later joined Rewiring Your Core Wound Patterns. Through the combination of community support, accountability, emotional healing tools, and daily application, Gosia began recognizing the difference between knowing information and actually living it.

In this episode, we discuss:

• The hidden struggle of looking successful while feeling stuck internally
• Why collecting information doesn't always create transformation
• How unresolved core wounds can keep you trapped in familiar patterns
• The difference between coping and healing
• Learning to identify feelings, needs, and emotional triggers
• Moving from victim consciousness into personal responsibility
• How emotional healing impacts confidence, relationships, and self-trust
• Why accountability and community accelerate growth
• Breaking free from numbing behaviors like emotional eating, shopping, and avoidance
• Becoming "different in the same situation" as a measure of true healing

Gosia also shares her experience in both Rewiring Your Core Wound Patterns and the 8-Week Body Reset, revealing how emotional healing and physical health are deeply connected.

If you've ever felt like you've done "all the work" but still find yourself repeating the same patterns, this conversation offers hope, inspiration, and proof that real transformation is possible.

Rewiring Your Core Wound Patterns:

jjflizanes.com/apply

3 Steps to Untangle Messy Emotional Situations:

jjflizanes.com/3steps

Feelings and Needs List:

jjflizanes.com/feelingslist

Are You Really Healing or High Functioning? Quiz:

jjflizanes.com/quiz

New Body Blueprint Cruise:

thenewbodyblueprint.com

Website:

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Spirit, Purpose & Energy Podcast:

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Facebook:

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What if the reason you keep replaying conversations, feeling triggered, shutting down, people-pleasing, or struggling to communicate isn't because something is wrong with you?

What if no one ever taught you how emotions actually work?

In this episode, JJ introduces one of the most powerful frameworks she has ever used for emotional healing, conflict resolution, nervous system regulation, and personal responsibility.

Most people were never taught:

• How to identify what they're feeling
• How to understand their needs
• How to navigate emotional situations effectively
• How to listen underneath the story

Instead, we've been taught to react, defend, avoid, cope, or blame.

JJ explains why emotional situations become messy and introduces the three questions that can change everything.

1. What am I feeling?
2. What need isn't being met?
3. What strategy could I use to get that need met?

While simple, these questions can transform how you approach conflict, stress, relationships, and communication.

• Emotional situations become complicated when we focus on the story instead of what's happening underneath.
• Stress, anxiety, frustration, resentment, and overwhelm often point to unmet needs.
• Your interpretation of an event creates your emotional experience more than the event itself.
• Core wounds and subconscious beliefs influence how you interpret the world.
• Most addictive, numbing, or coping behaviors are attempts to avoid uncomfortable emotions.
• Learning to identify feelings and needs creates greater peace, clarity, and self-awareness.
• Emotional intelligence begins with taking responsibility for your internal experience.
• Listening differently can dramatically improve communication and relationships.

Free Feelings & Needs List:

jjflizanes.com/feelingslist

Three Steps to Untangle Messy Emotional Situations:

jjflizanes.com/3step

14-Day Manifestation Challenge:

jjflizanes.com/14day

"You are 100% responsible for how you interpret things."

Website:

jjflizanes.com

Podcast:

Spirit, Purpose & Energy

In this powerful episode, JJ shares one of the most eye-opening exercises from her beta Eight-Week Body Reset program—an assessment designed to uncover the hidden archetypes that sabotage self-care, health goals, and personal growth. What participants discovered wasn't simply why they struggle with exercise, nutrition, or consistency. They uncovered the emotional survival strategies running beneath their behaviors.

JJ reveals the most common archetypes identified by participants—including the Avoider, Perfectionist, Overachiever, Emotional Eater, and Information Collector—and explains why these patterns are rarely about food, fitness, or willpower. Instead, they're often rooted in fear, abandonment, rejection, shame, and unmet emotional needs.

You'll learn why procrastination is often nervous system protection rather than laziness, how perfectionism masks deeper fears of criticism and failure, and why so many people continue gathering information instead of taking action. JJ also connects these archetypes directly to her Core Wound framework, showing how self-care struggles often mirror the ways we unconsciously abandon ourselves.

The episode explores four major themes that emerged from the exercise:

• "If I can't do it perfectly, I won't do it at all."
• Avoidance as emotional protection.
• Why self-care feels selfish.
• The real cost of neglecting yourself isn't weight gain—it's losing freedom, confidence, trust, and opportunities.

JJ explains how true transformation isn't about becoming thinner, more disciplined, or more productive. It's about becoming someone who trusts themselves, keeps promises to themselves, feels worthy, and no longer needs survival strategies to feel safe.

• The five most common body archetypes and what they reveal
• How fear disguises itself as perfectionism, procrastination, and information gathering
• The connection between self-care and abandonment wounds
• Why weight is often a symptom, not the real problem
• How emotional avoidance creates anxiety and physical symptoms
• The role of feelings, needs, and nervous system regulation in lasting change
• Why accountability is one of the most powerful forms of self-love
• An introduction to the upcoming Metabolic Transformation Studio membership

Your health habits are not character flaws. They're often emotional protection strategies created to keep you safe. When you identify the wound beneath the behavior and begin meeting your deeper needs, self-care becomes less about willpower and more about self-love.

Resources Mentioned:

• Body Archetype Assessment: jjflizanes.com/archetype
• Feelings & Needs List
• Eight-Week Body Reset
• Rewiring Your Core Wound Patterns
• Metabolic Transformation Studio https://jjflizanes.com/studio

In this episode, JJ Flizanes explores a powerful question: When was the last time you intentionally paused? Not because you were exhausted, overwhelmed, or forced to stop—but because you consciously chose to reconnect with yourself. In a culture obsessed with productivity, achievement, self-improvement, and constant action, many of us have become disconnected from our bodies, our emotions, our intuition, and our inner wisdom.

JJ discusses how hustle culture has infiltrated not only our work lives but also our healing journeys. We read the books, listen to the podcasts, take the courses, and attend the workshops—but often fail to create the space necessary for integration. True transformation doesn't happen through accumulating more information. It happens when we slow down enough to embody what we've learned.

Drawing on themes from recent conversations about mental health, spiritual awakening, nervous system regulation, and emotional healing, JJ shares why intentional rituals may be one of the most overlooked tools for creating lasting change. Rituals create predictability, safety, reflection, and regulation. They tell the nervous system that it's okay to stop, breathe, and listen.

Listeners will also hear the inspiration behind Sacred Rhythms, JJ's new community centered around New Moon Rituals and Full Moon Ceremonies. More than a spiritual practice, these gatherings provide structured opportunities to pause, reflect, create, release, heal, and reconnect with what truly matters. Whether you resonate with moon cycles or simply need a way to step off the hamster wheel of life, this episode offers a compelling case for bringing more ritual and less hustle into your daily experience.

• Why hustle culture is keeping us disconnected
• The difference between learning and integrating
• How nervous system dysregulation fuels burnout and overwhelm
• Why rituals exist in every culture throughout history
• The role of intentional pauses in emotional healing and manifestation
• How nature teaches us through cycles of growth, release, and renewal
• The difference between New Moon creation and Full Moon release
• Why Sacred Rhythms was created and how it supports transformation

• Healing is not about collecting more information—it's about living what you learn.
• Manifestation isn't just about creating; it's also about clearing and making space for what's next.
• Rituals help regulate the nervous system by creating intentional moments of safety, reflection, and presence.
• Growth, healing, manifestation, and life itself are cyclical—not linear.

"If we don't pause and take time to assess what we're doing and how we're doing it, we're on autopilot. And if you're on autopilot, you're not present in your life."

Sacred Rhythms is a monthly community centered around New Moon Rituals and Full Moon Ceremonies designed to help you slow down, reconnect, regulate your nervous system, set intentions, release what no longer serves you, and consciously move through the cycles of life.

🌑 Create.

🌕 Release.

✨ Heal.

💫 Expand.

New Moon to plant. Full Moon to release. Always in rhythm.

https://jjflizanes.com/moon

Can consciousness exist independent of the brain?

In this fascinating return conversation, JJ sits down with renowned neurosurgeon, near-death experiencer, and bestselling author Eben Alexander to explore one of the biggest questions facing science, spirituality, and human healing today.

Drawing from his own extraordinary near-death experience during a week-long coma caused by bacterial meningitis, Dr. Alexander challenges conventional assumptions about consciousness, memory, healing, and the role of the brain itself.

Together, JJ and Dr. Alexander explore the intersection of neuroplasticity, psychedelics, meditation, trauma healing, survival states, and spiritual awakening. They discuss why so many people remain stuck despite years of therapy, why conventional psychiatric approaches may fall short, and what practices can help people access deeper states of transformation.

This conversation dives into the profound possibility that healing may not come from fixing the brain—but from reconnecting to the greater consciousness beyond it.

• Why Dr. Alexander believes consciousness is not created by the brain
• What his near-death experience revealed about life, death, and the soul
• The surprising science behind psilocybin and ego dissolution
• How meditation and psychedelics may affect the brain's default mode network
• Why fear of death can keep the body trapped in survival mode
• The connection between healing, consciousness, and neuroplasticity
• What near-death experiences consistently teach about love and purpose
• The role of meditation in expanding awareness and intuition
• Scientific evidence supporting non-local consciousness
• How childhood wounds, identity, and ego influence our experience of reality
• Why personal experience often changes people more than data alone
• Practical ways to begin exploring consciousness for yourself

"The deepest lesson from near-death experiences is remarkably simple: Love is what matters. How we treat ourselves and others is ultimately the most important thing."

📖 Proof of Heaven

📖 Map of Heaven

📖 Living in a Mindful Universe

🌐 Sacred Acoustics Meditation Technology

Sacred Acoustics

🌐 Free 33-Day Journey Into the Heart of Consciousness

Eben Alexander Official Website

• Living in a Mindful Universe
• Proof of Heaven
• Beliefs Can Heal Us
• Gifts of Desperation

🌐 JJ Flizanes Official Website

What if the story we’ve been told about depression, anxiety, bipolar disorder, ADHD, and schizophrenia isn’t actually supported by the science?

In this eye-opening conversation, JJ sits down with investigative journalist and bestselling author Anatomy of an Epidemic creator Robert Whitaker to explore the origins of the “chemical imbalance” theory, the pharmaceutical influence on psychiatry, and what the research actually says about long-term outcomes with psychiatric medications.

Robert shares how his career as a medical journalist led him into uncovering contradictions between the public narrative around mental illness and what researchers inside the field were actually finding. Together, JJ and Robert discuss how emotions, trauma, environment, nervous system responses, childhood conditioning, and meaning-making may play a much bigger role in mental health than we’ve been taught.

This conversation dives into:

• The origins of the serotonin and dopamine imbalance theories
• Why the “chemical imbalance” story continued despite lack of evidence
• Research on antidepressants, antipsychotics, ADHD medications, and long-term outcomes
• The difference between healing and symptom management
• How labeling people can shape identity and behavior
• Why emotions are part of being human—not necessarily disorders
• The connection between trauma, interpretation, core wounds, and emotional suffering
• The importance of teaching emotional processing and nervous system regulation
• Open Dialogue therapy and alternative approaches to healing
• Why society may be over-medicating normal human emotional experiences

JJ also shares her perspective as an Empowerment Strategist, discussing the role of core wound patterns, subconscious beliefs, emotional suppression, and how people can begin reconnecting with their bodies, emotions, and inner resilience.

This episode challenges conventional thinking while opening the door to a broader conversation about healing, humanity, and what it truly means to thrive emotionally.

• Anatomy of an Epidemic
• National Institute of Mental Health
• Mad in America
• Nonviolent Communication
• Open Dialogue Therapy
• EMDR & neuroplasticity approaches
• Core Wound Mapping

Mad in America

JJ Flizanes Official Website

In this heartfelt and inspiring conversation, JJ sits down with Gia Ilole, founder of Seasons of Life Celebrations, to explore the healing power of ritual, intentional community, and honoring life’s transitions — both joyful and painful.

After experiencing profound personal loss — the death of her sister followed just six months later by the sudden loss of her husband — Gia discovered a deep need for meaningful, secular ceremonies that support people through grief, transition, and transformation.

Together, JJ and Gia discuss:

• Why ritual matters more than ever in modern life
• How intentional ceremonies help people heal and reconnect
• The emotional importance of community and shared experiences
• Why transitions deserve acknowledgment — not just weddings and funerals
• How grief can uncover purpose, service, and a new calling
• The role of celebration in milestones like divorce, retirement, career shifts, menopause, empty nesting, and personal reinvention
• Why many people need support creating ceremonies that truly reflect who they are

Gia shares how her business helps individuals and families design customized ceremonies, memorials, and celebrations that feel deeply personal and healing — whether in person or remotely.

JJ also reflects on her own love of ritual, community-building, and creating memorable experiences through intentional gatherings, traditions, and ceremonies. The conversation expands into:

• Love languages and quality time
• Creating annual traditions and meaningful gatherings
• Estate planning beyond finances
• Leaving loved ones guidance for memorial wishes
• The growing need for community-centered healing

One of the most powerful themes of the episode is this:

Gia explains how rituals — even simple or symbolic ones — can psychologically and emotionally help people process change, grief, endings, beginnings, and identity shifts.

• Grief & healing
• Secular memorial ceremonies
• Ritual & spirituality
• Community building
• Empty nest transitions
• Menopause & identity shifts
• Divorce & career transition ceremonies
• Intentional living
• Celebrating milestones
• Death doulas & end-of-life planning
• Entrepreneurship after loss
• Service, connection & purpose

Gia Ilole is the founder of Seasons of Life Celebrations, a company devoted to helping people create meaningful ceremonies and intentional rituals for life’s biggest transitions. Services include:

• Memorial planning
• Celebration officiating
• Ceremony design
• Obituary & eulogy writing
• Memorial mapping
• Customized rituals
• Life transition celebrations

• Website: Seasons of Life Celebrations
• Instagram: @seasonsoflifecelebrationsvc

Life is made meaningful through intentional connection, shared experiences, and rituals that honor who we are becoming — not just who we’ve been.

with Dr. Jonny Bowden

In this eye-opening conversation, JJ reconnects with renowned nutrition expert and bestselling author Dr. Jonny Bowden to unpack one of the most misunderstood topics in modern medicine: cholesterol.

Dr. Bowden, co-author of The Great Cholesterol Myth, explains why the conventional cholesterol narrative is outdated, why total cholesterol tells us almost nothing about heart disease risk, and why inflammation and insulin resistance may be far more important predictors of long-term health.

Together, JJ and Dr. Bowden discuss the evolution of cholesterol science, the overprescription of statins, and why people must become advocates for their own health instead of blindly outsourcing decisions to conventional medicine.

• Why total cholesterol is an outdated marker for heart disease risk
• The difference between LDL cholesterol and LDL particles
• Why “good” and “bad” cholesterol is an oversimplified concept
• What ApoB and LDL particle testing actually reveal about cardiovascular risk
• The role of inflammation in chronic disease and heart disease
• How insulin resistance predicts disease years before symptoms appear
• Why stress, processed foods, poor sleep, and sedentary living fuel metabolic dysfunction
• The connection between blood sugar regulation and cardiovascular health
• Why many conventional cholesterol tests are “1963 medicine”
• What lifestyle changes can help reduce inflammation naturally
• Why questioning medical dogma matters for your long-term health

Dr. Bowden explains that cholesterol itself is not the enemy. Instead, the real issue is the condition of the particles carrying cholesterol through the bloodstream and the inflammation damaging artery walls. He uses powerful analogies — including boats crashing in a marina and golf balls burning through a tennis net — to explain how small, dense LDL particles create more cardiovascular risk than large LDL particles.

JJ and Dr. Bowden also explore how insulin resistance quietly drives many chronic diseases, including obesity, diabetes, hypertension, Alzheimer’s, and heart disease — often decades before diagnosis.

This episode is a reminder that true health requires curiosity, critical thinking, and personal responsibility.

• The Great Cholesterol Myth by Dr. Jonny Bowden & Dr. Stephen Sinatra
• ApoB testing
• LDL particle testing
• Function Health
• PubMed.gov

• Website: DrJonnyBowden.com
• Book: The Great Cholesterol Myth

• JJ Flizanes Official Website
• Feelings & Needs List

If you’ve ever thought, “I know better… so why do I keep doing this?”—this episode is for you.

In this powerful conversation, I break down the real reason we stay stuck in emotional, behavioral, and even physical patterns—and why traditional approaches to healing often don’t create lasting change.

We’re not just talking about mindset.

We’re going deeper—to the subconscious beliefs formed before age 7 that still shape your reactions, your habits, and your identity today.

This is the foundation of my Core Wound Map™, and once you see it… you can’t unsee it.

• What a core wound really is (and why you didn’t choose it)
• How your brain created beliefs to keep you safe—but now keeps you stuck
• The hidden pattern loop: Trigger → Feeling → Reaction
• Why awareness alone doesn’t change behavior
• The difference between coping vs. actual healing
• Why most therapy and personal development miss the root
• How your patterns show up in:
• Relationships
• Food & body image
• Self-sabotage
• Emotional triggers

Healing is when you are different in the same situation.

Not when you avoid it.

Not when you leave it.

When the trigger is the same…

but your response is different.

That’s real change.

When you’re triggered, ask yourself:

1. What am I feeling?
2. What need is not being met?
3. How can I meet that need—without requiring anyone else to change?

👉 This is how you interrupt the pattern in real time.

Download the Feelings & Needs List to start practicing this today:

👉 jjflizanes.com/feelingslist (or your preferred link)

Print it. Keep it with you. Use it.

If this resonates, it means you’re ready to go deeper.

This is exactly the work we do inside:

• The Roadmap to Emotional Healing
• Rewiring Your Core Wound Patterns
• The Empowering Minds Network

Because this isn’t about more information…

It’s about becoming someone different in the same situation.

JJ sits down with nutritionist and behavior specialist Carrie Lupoli to break down why traditional dieting fails—and what actually creates lasting health and transformation.

From generational conditioning and disordered eating to blood sugar regulation and belief systems, this episode reveals why most people stay stuck… and how to finally shift your relationship with food, body, and self.

• Why the diet industry keeps you stuck in cycles
• The difference between calories vs. blood sugar regulation
• Why weight loss is a symptom—not the goal
• How your beliefs and identity drive your behaviors
• Why “I know what to do, I just don’t do it” keeps happening
• How to shift into the healthiest version of yourself

• Diets Don’t Address the Root
• Restriction and willpower ignore the real issue—your metabolism, mindset, and patterns.

• Blood Sugar Drives Everything
• Energy, cravings, weight gain, inflammation, and even chronic disease are tied to metabolic health.

• You Can’t Outperform Your Beliefs
• You can have the perfect plan—but without rewiring your mindset, it won’t stick.

• Identity > Goals
• Stop chasing a number on the scale.
• Start asking: What does the healthiest version of me do, say, think, and believe?
• You Are Always Modeling
• Your beliefs show up in your actions—and impact your family and environment.

• From Corset to Crown
• Let go of restriction, shame, and shrinking yourself…
• and step into self-worth, health, and empowerment.

You don’t need another diet.

You need to shift your identity, regulate your body, and align your beliefs.

That’s where real, lasting change happens.

Connect with JJ Flizanes:

• Website: https://jjflizanes.com
• Free resources & programs: https://jjflizanes.com/mm
• Podcast Network: https://empoweringmindsnetwork.com

Connect with Carrie Lupoli:

• Book (Pre-Order): From Corset to Crown
• 👉 https://carrielupoli.com/corset-to-crown
• Website: https://carrielupoli.com
• Instagram: https://instagram.com/carrielupoli

• Women tired of dieting and starting over
• Those who feel stuck despite “doing everything right”
• Anyone ready to move from restriction → empowerment
• Listeners wanting a deeper, sustainable approach to health

In this solo episode, JJ pulls together the biggest insights from her recent 3-Day Body Breakthrough Challenge and shares why body change after 40 requires a different conversation than the one most women have been taught. If you’ve been eating less, doing more cardio, trying harder—and still not seeing results—this episode explains why.

JJ unpacks the 7 Factors of Weight Loss Resistance, including blood sugar regulation, inefficient exercise, hormone imbalance, poor sleep, nervous system stress, inflammation, and missing nutritional substrates. She explains why body change isn’t about more willpower or restriction, but about understanding the systems affecting metabolism, fat loss, muscle, and energy.

• Why the old “eat less, exercise more” model stops working after 40
• The 7 hidden factors of weight loss resistance
• Why blood sugar regulation may be more important than calories
• How inefficient exercise could be wasting your time
• Why resistance training is non-negotiable for metabolism, hormones, bone, and brain health
• The overlooked link between nervous system stress and body composition
• How inflammation and gut health can block fat loss
• Why sleep is a body change strategy—not a luxury
• The truth about muscle loss, body composition, and why the scale can lie
• Why discipline is not deprivation—and what food freedom actually looks like
• How accountability and support create momentum that changes habits

Body change is a systems issue.

If you only focus on food or exercise without addressing hormones, stress, sleep, inflammation, and metabolism, you may stay stuck.

Your nervous system affects your results.

Fight-or-flight physiology can interfere with digestion, recovery, fat burning, and healing.

Muscle matters more than you think.

After 40, preserving and building active tissue is one of the biggest levers for changing body composition and aging well.

Stop focusing only on weight.

The scale doesn’t tell you whether you’ve lost muscle or gained fat. Body composition tells a different story.

Replacement beats restriction.

JJ shares why sustainable results come from working with your body, not fighting against it.

“If you loved the way you looked, would you care what the number was?”

• 3-Day Body Breakthrough Challenge
• Date Your Body
• 8-Week Body Reset (Beta)
• Continuous Glucose Monitors (CGMs)
• The 7 Factors of Weight Loss Resistance
• JJ’s 5-Day Food Focus

Apply for the 8-Week Body Reset:

jjflizanes.com/8week

Free Feelings & Needs List:

jjflizanes.com/feelingslist

Share it with a woman who keeps saying, “Nothing works anymore.”

And if you’re ready to stop guessing and start addressing the missing pieces, this episode is your invitation to begin.

In this powerful conversation, JJ Flizanes sits down with clinical psychologist Dr. Nafisa Sekandari to explore the deeper truth behind anxiety, burnout, and what it really takes to create lasting happiness.

This episode goes beyond surface-level solutions and dives into the root causes of emotional and physical imbalance, especially for high-achieving women navigating stress, hormonal shifts, and overwhelm.

Dr. Nafisa shares her personal journey of immigrating to the United States from Afghanistan as a child, navigating trauma, and developing debilitating shyness and anxiety.

Through intentional self-work—facing fears, studying psychology, and exploring holistic healing—she transformed her challenges into a framework that now helps others do the same.

Many high-performing women don’t realize they are being driven by anxiety.

Instead of presenting as dysfunction, anxiety often shows up as:

• Overachievement
• Perfectionism
• Burnout and chronic stress
• Emotional reactivity or overwhelm

Dr. Nafisa emphasizes that true healing requires addressing the root cause, not just managing symptoms.

After experiencing a particularly “effortful” year, Dr. Nafisa launched the Happiness Project—a year-long experiment focused on creating more joy through small, consistent changes.

Each month targets a different life area, including:

• Environment and energy
• Relationships and connection
• Parenting and personal growth

The goal is not to ignore reality—but to focus on what you can control and become more intentional about how you live.

One of the most important themes of this episode is emotional awareness.

In a culture that avoids discomfort, many people:

• Suppress negative emotions
• Rush to “fix” feelings
• Label themselves as “dysregulated” instead of understanding the message

Dr. Nafisa reframes this:

Healing begins when you allow emotions to surface, process them, and release their charge through awareness, expression, and integration.

Both JJ and Dr. Nafisa highlight how emotions directly impact physical health.

Examples include:

• Anger → liver, tension, hormonal disruption
• Grief → lungs, breathing issues
• Chronic stress → sleep disruption, anxiety, inflammation

Ignoring emotional health can manifest physically, reinforcing the need for a holistic approach to healing.

Dr. Nafisa’s approach integrates five key areas:

• Mindset
• Emotional health
• Behavior patterns
• Physical health (nutrition, sleep, movement)
• Spiritual connection

She emphasizes that lifestyle is the entry point for most people.

Simple but powerful shifts include:

• Prioritizing quality sleep
• Reducing caffeine and stabilizing blood sugar
• Supporting the body with nutrition and movement
• Creating consistent daily routines

This episode challenges the idea that focusing on happiness is naïve or dismissive.

Instead, JJ and Dr. Nafisa reinforce:

• You cannot control the world—but you can control your response
• Your emotional state influences your experience and outcomes
• Being solution-focused creates more positive impact than staying problem-focused

• Anxiety often hides behind achievement and productivity
• Emotional suppression leads to deeper imbalance
• Small, consistent changes create long-term transformation
• Your body reflects your emotional state
• True empowerment comes from awareness, alignment, and intentional living

Dr. Nafisa offers:

• Mental Health Break Podcast
• The Happiness Project community
• A free program: Beginner’s Guide to Anxiety Management (use code “JJ”)

You don’t need to control everything around you to feel better.

You need to reconnect with yourself, process what’s real, and choose alignment—moment by moment.

Connect with Dr. Nafisa Sekandari:

• Website: www.drsekandari.com
• Happiness Project: www.drsekandari.com/happiness-project
• Podcast: Mental Health Break Podcast

In today’s episode, JJ breaks down a topic that confuses so many people—why yoga can feel amazing but still not deliver the body results you’re looking for.

After 25+ years in the fitness and health industry, JJ shares the truth about exercise, body composition, and the biggest mistake people make when choosing how to move their bodies.

If you’ve ever thought, “I’m doing all the right things… so why isn’t anything changing?”—this episode is for you.

• Why yoga can feel like a “magic fix” (and when it actually works)
• The real reason some people lose weight doing yoga—and others don’t
• The difference between nervous system regulation vs. body transformation
• Why most exercise routines fail to change body composition
• How your body adapts—and why that leads to plateaus
• The importance of choosing the right exercise for your specific goal
• Why time spent exercising doesn’t always equal results

JJ breaks down the most common styles of yoga and what they’re actually good for, including:

• Hatha
• Vinyasa
• Ashtanga
• Power Yoga
• Bikram / Hot Yoga
• Yin
• Restorative
• Kundalini
• Iyengar
• Chair Yoga

Each serves a purpose—but not all of them are designed for fat loss, muscle building, or metabolic change.

• Feeling better ≠ changing your body
• Your body responds to stimulus, not preference
• Most people plateau because they don’t change the strategy
• Yoga is powerful for stress relief, recovery, and nervous system balance
• But it is not a primary tool for body composition change

👉 “It’s not that your body isn’t working—it’s that you’re not giving it the right instructions.”

If you’re tired of doing “all the right things” and not getting results…

Join JJ for the 3-Day Body Breakthrough Challenge

📅 April 15–17 (replays available)

You’ll uncover the 7 factors of weight loss resistance and finally understand:

• Why your body isn’t changing
• What to focus on instead
• How to move the needle—efficiently

👉 Join here: http://jjflizanes.com/3day

Yoga has value. Movement has value. But results come from alignment between your goals and your strategy.

What if everything you’ve been told about cholesterol, statins, and hormones isn’t the full picture?

In this eye-opening conversation, I sit down with Elizabeth Plourde, who brings decades of research and firsthand experience inside the medical system. We explore how “normal” ranges have changed over time, why so many people are prescribed medications without deeper investigation, and what your body actually needs to function optimally.

This episode is about empowerment—understanding your body, asking better questions, and not blindly outsourcing your health decisions.

What We Cover

🔹 The Cholesterol Conversation No One Is Having

• Why “healthy ranges” for cholesterol have shifted over time
• The role of cholesterol in hormone production and brain function
• Why lowering cholesterol may not always equal better health

🔹 Statins: What You Should Know

• Common side effects (including muscle pain and fatigue)
• Why many people are prescribed statins without full context
• The importance of understanding risks vs. benefits for YOU

🔹 Hormones: The Missing Link

• Why hormone decline impacts nearly every system in the body
• The difference between synthetic vs. bioidentical hormones
• How hormone imbalance can affect mood, energy, bones, and more

🔹 The Bigger Problem with Modern Medicine

• Why most people don’t question their doctors—and the risk of that
• How fear-based recommendations influence decision-making
• The importance of becoming your own health advocate

Key Takeaways

• Your body is not broken—it’s responding to imbalances
• “Normal” lab ranges don’t always mean optimal health
• Cholesterol is essential for hormone production and brain function
• Medications are not always the root-cause solution
• You have more power than you think when you ask questions and explore options

JJ’s Perspective

This episode is personal.

After navigating my own health challenges and being pressured into solutions that didn’t feel aligned, I realized how important it is to trust yourself, get educated, and advocate for your body.

Most people don’t realize how much pressure exists inside the medical system until they’re in it.

You don’t have to accept the first answer you’re given.

Resources Mentioned

• Learn more about Dr. Plourde’s work on EMF and health:
• https://www.emffreedom.com/
• The Great Cholesterol Myth by Jonny Bowden & Stephen Sinatra
• EMF Freedom: Solutions for the 21st Century Pollution by Elizabeth Plourde
• Hysterectomy, Ovary Removal, and Hormone Replacement by Elizabeth Plourde
• CoQ10 for heart health and energy support
• Vision Alive Max (eye health support mentioned in episode)

Call to Action

If this episode resonated with you, it’s time to go deeper.

Join me for the 14-Day Manifestation Challenge where we apply this same level of awareness and empowerment to your thoughts, emotions, and outcomes.

👉 http://jjflizanes.com/14day

Final Thought

Healing isn’t about blindly following instructions.

It’s about becoming aware enough to choose what’s right for you.

What happens when you’ve achieved everything you thought you wanted… and it still doesn’t feel right?

In this powerful conversation, JJ Flizanes joins Allison Lane to unpack the hidden experience so many high-achieving women face—but rarely talk about: outgrowing the very life they worked so hard to build.

From anxiety and burnout to the quiet feeling of “this can’t be it,” this episode dives into why success can start to feel empty—and what’s actually underneath it.

Together, JJ and Allison explore the deeper emotional, psychological, and subconscious patterns that keep brilliant women stuck, invisible, or second-guessing their next move—even when they know they’re meant for more.

If you’ve ever felt disconnected, restless, or unsure of your next chapter… this conversation will help you understand why—and what becomes possible when you finally listen to that inner call.

1. Why high-achieving women often feel unfulfilled after reaching success
2. The difference between burnout vs. outgrowing your current life
3. How subconscious beliefs and core wounds drive overachievement
4. Why “mindset work” alone isn’t enough—and what actually creates change
5. The hidden role of addiction to achievement, control, and validation
6. Signs you’re repressing your true purpose (and how it shows up physically and emotionally)
7. Why visibility feels so hard—and how fear of judgment keeps you playing small
8. The truth about needing more certifications, degrees, or “permission”
9. What happens when you finally align with your purpose, passion, and dharma
10. How to move from confusion and stagnation into clarity, energy, and momentum

1. Success built on external validation or compensation will eventually feel empty
2. Anxiety, burnout, and even physical symptoms can be signs of misalignment
3. You don’t need more credentials—you need clarity and alignment
4. You are not for everyone—and hiding keeps the right people from finding you
5. Growth requires stepping through discomfort, not avoiding it
6. When you align with your truth, life becomes lighter, more energized, and more supported

When you stop ignoring that inner knowing and start listening:

1. You feel lighter and more energized
2. Your nervous system begins to calm
3. Opportunities and alignment start showing up
4. You gain clarity on your purpose and next steps
5. You move from performing… to truly living your truth

If this episode resonated with you, you are not alone—and you are not stuck.

JJ and Allison are hosting a live masterclass to go deeper into this conversation:

📅 April 10

🔗 Register: jjflizanes.com/brilliantwomen

🎟️ Use the free VIP code JJFREE

Allison Lane helps accomplished women expand their visibility, authority, and impact—guiding them from industry experts to recognized thought leaders through books, media, and strategic positioning.

JJ Flizanes is an Empowerment Strategist, author, and podcast host who helps people heal emotional patterns, uncover core wounds, and align with their purpose to create lasting transformation.

If you’ve been quietly wondering, “Is this all there is?”

That question isn’t a problem.

It’s the beginning of your next evolution.

Have you ever felt like you're doing all the right things—vision boards, appreciation lists, meditation, inner work—and yet nothing seems to be moving?

In this solo episode, JJ shares a deeply personal reflection on the space between where you are and the next version of who you're becoming.

Sometimes feeling stuck isn't a sign that something is wrong.

Sometimes it means your container is expanding.

Drawing from her background in fitness, manifestation work, and recent personal experiences—including a powerful birthday medicine journey—JJ explores why growth often feels uncomfortable and why contrast is actually necessary for transformation.

If you've ever wondered why the Law of Attraction seems to stop working when you need it most, this episode will help you understand the deeper shift that may be happening within you.

This conversation explores the moment when the old version of you is dissolving, but the new version hasn't fully arrived yet—and how learning to trust that process is one of the most important skills in manifestation.

• Why people feel stuck even when they're doing all the personal growth work • The stage of transformation where the old identity dissolves • Why contrast is necessary for growth and expansion • The resistance training analogy for emotional and spiritual development • The real reason manifestation sometimes feels blocked • Why your container must expand before your desires can manifest • The hardest part of the Law of Attraction: feeling aligned before the evidence shows up • How collective energy and world events can affect personal growth • Why you may be in a "caterpillar to butterfly" phase of transformation • What it means to recognize yourself as an extension of Source energy

We don't attract what we want.

We attract where we are.

If the life you're calling in is bigger than what you've experienced before, you must become the energetic and emotional container capable of holding it.

That expansion often feels uncomfortable—but it's a sign that growth is happening.

If you resonate with this conversation, JJ invites you to join the next 14-Day Manifestation Challenge starting April 1st.

This challenge is designed to help you strengthen your manifestation muscle and learn how to stay aligned, hopeful, and grounded—even before the results show up.

Because the real work of manifestation isn't controlling circumstances.

It's becoming the person who can hold the reality you're calling in.

Join here: jjflizanes.com/14-day

Register for the next free 14 Day Manifestation Challenge that starts April 1st! http://jjflizanes.com/14day

In this episode, JJ sits down with returning guest Lori Shelley, a coach who helps women navigate the emotional and practical aftermath of betrayal. Lori shares her background—from 12 years in financial planning (including training leadership), to 13 years at home raising her kids, to 13 years in HR—and how her own life experience led her to coaching women in midlife who are rebuilding after major relationship disruption.

Lori opens up about discovering her husband's long-term deception through what's often called "drip disclosure"—learning the truth in pieces over time—and how that process created intense nervous-system dysregulation: depression, short temper, feeling worse as she approached home, and eventually rage that didn't match the partial information she had. She explains how a formal therapeutic disclosure helped bring alignment between what she felt and what was actually happening—creating clarity, validation, and a turning point for healing.

Together, JJ and Lori discuss why the right support matters. Lori describes the difference between approaches that frame partners as "co-addicts" versus betrayal trauma frameworks that recognize the impact of deception on safety, intuition, and identity. She shares how 12-step style groups (including COSA) can provide a safe starting place—especially when the group's structure and energy support growth instead of staying stuck in the story.

Lori also explains how she works with women today through groups and individual coaching, including:

• A group for women navigating separation/divorce after betrayal, and

• A deeper healing experience called The Spiral Path, a 6-month program exploring:

  1. what you want to leave behind,

  2. what you want to acknowledge, and

  3. what you want to walk away with.

  
  

JJ highlights Lori's unique zone of genius: blending emotional healing + financial and career support for women facing divorce—helping clients move from "I'm not okay" to regulated, grounded, and clear about what they will and won't accept moving forward. Lori shares one of her favorite group check-ins: noticing glimmers (small signs of hope) and naming what you're beating yourself up about—so you can begin to come back to yourself.

Connect with Lori: Website: LoriShelleyCoaching.com (Book a free 30-minute consultation) Facebook: Lori Shelley Coaching

In this solo episode, JJ breaks down how to move through the powerful momentum of the Fire Horse year without burnout by focusing on just three aligned priorities. Rather than getting swept up in urgency, overcommitment, or scattered action, she shares how to use this high-energy cycle for sustainable expansion through identity, intentional creation, and body-led balance. This conversation is your reminder that success this year comes from congruence, not doing more. If you're ready for guided support, join JJ's free 14-Day Manifestation Challenge starting April 1st at JJFlizanes.com/14day, and download her Metabolic Makeover program (a $500 value) completely free at JJFlizanes.com/mm using the code JJFREE.

In this episode, JJ Flizanes welcomes Erin Hines, a Human Design business coach (and repeat guest from West Coast Women Rising), to kick off a new series-style conversation on Human Design—what it is, why it's gaining traction, and how it can help you better understand your energy, decision-making, and natural way of operating in life and work.

What You'll Learn

• What Human Design is and where it came from (a modern system developed in the late 1980s)
• How Human Design blends ancient and modern systems (astrology, I Ching, chakras + physics/biology concepts)
• The "science of differentiation": why your uniqueness matters and how it supports more ease in life
• The 5 Human Design types and what each one needs to manage energy well:
• Generators & Manifesting Generators: consistent energy when doing what lights you up; built to respond
• Projectors: here to guide; thrive by waiting for invitations and honoring rest
• Manifestors: here to initiate; thrive by informing and allowing cycles of burst/rest
• Reflectors: sensitive mirrors of environments; thrive with downtime and supportive spaces


• How type can reduce shame and friction (e.g., why open-ended questions can feel hard for "response-based" types)
• The basics of reading a Human Design chart: Type, Centers (defined vs open), and deeper layers like gates/channels

Mentioned in the Episode

• Erin's free Human Design chart option (available many places; Erin's includes helpful click-for-explanations)
• Erin's "Intro to Human Design" custom report for deeper insight
• Erin's podcast: Rebel to Rise: Where Business Meets Human Design (includes business strategy + HD education)

Connect with Erin Hines

Erin's website: DarnGoodBusinessCoach.com Find Erin on: LinkedIn Listen to: Rebel to Rise: Where Business Meets Human Design

JJ welcomes Sheila Donohue for a conversation that blends entrepreneurship, lifestyle, and the art of curated Italian wines and foods. Sheila shares how her company, Verovino, sources small-batch, farm-made wines, olive oils, and specialty foods—many not readily available in the U.S.—and delivers them to both consumers and businesses across America.

• Meet Sheila in Bologna: Sheila shares her life in Bologna, Italy, where she's lived since 2001, and how Italy shaped her expertise and relationships with producers.

• What Verovino does: Verovino curates and imports authentic, sustainably made, small-batch products—primarily from Italy, plus select producers from other countries and California—selling B2B and direct-to-consumer.

• From fintech to food & wine: Sheila explains her background in financial technology (fintech), her sommelier training in Italy, and how her personal immersion in artisan food culture inspired the company.

• Starting from a "clean slate": In 2017, after major life changes, Sheila began building Verovino—funded through savings—and took early action by importing product and going door-to-door to find customers.

• How the business grows: Sheila emphasizes the importance of continuity (repeat business), building scale, and covering operating expenses. She explains how an omni-channel strategy helps stabilize the business:

  • Distributors nationwide

  • Wine stores & restaurants (especially in California)

  • Direct-to-consumer shipping across the U.S.

  • Corporate gifting & events

  
  

• Marketing & education that compounds: Verovino invests in education and storytelling through digital marketing—especially their blog and YouTube channel—to build long-term brand trust and demand.

• Product philosophy: As a sommelier-led team, Sheila curates for variety and distinction: reds, whites, rosés, orange wines, sparkling (dry and sweet), plus standout olive oils—including single-varietal olive oils with specific pairing profiles.

• Events as a growth engine: Sheila shares how tastings, fundraisers, private events, and collaborations introduce people to the products—because tasting creates appreciation and connection.

• Specialty foods: The conversation highlights a Piedmont hazelnut producer offering toasted hazelnuts, caramelized hazelnuts, hazelnut creams, pasta, and pestos—plus JJ's enthusiasm for pistachio cream and clean ingredients.

• Wine club & gifting: Sheila describes Verovino's monthly or quarterly wine club, curated shipments with insider notes and stories, and a growing trend of gifting memberships (including personalized letters).

• Gift sets: Verovino offers curated gift sets—popular in December—and a standout option that pairs wine + olive oil, plus expanded options for non-wine drinkers.

• A second brand line for broader appeal: To avoid being pigeonholed and to meet different market needs, Sheila shares how Verovino expanded into a separate line for more "recognizable" wines, including Prosecco and kegs—ideal for events and high-volume restaurant service.

• Advice for new producers: Sheila emphasizes the need to stand out in a crowded market—especially as the wine industry faces headwinds—and to clearly differentiate your product and message.

• JJ connects her own journey as a winemaker (High Vibrational Wines) and discusses why she values small-batch, purpose-driven production over mass distribution.

• A fun community collaboration emerges: JJ invites Sheila to co-create a March event in Ojai with "Women Behind the Business: Real Conversations," potentially adding a wine tasting experience—and they discover their birthdays are both in March.

• Website: Verovino.com

• YouTube: Vero Vino

• Instagram & Facebook: VeroVinoGusto

Closing: JJ encourages listeners to explore Verovino for personal discovery, gifting, and creating meaningful food-and-wine experiences that bring "a taste of Italy" home.

What happens when someone listens to every single episode of your podcast for over a decade?

In this special conversation, JJ celebrates a major milestone by sitting down with longtime listener Vicki, who discovered the show years ago while walking through life's biggest transitions — caring for an aging parent, navigating a demanding career, and eventually stepping into retirement.

What unfolds is a heartfelt, real-life story about how small daily shifts, emotional healing, and consistent self-care can quietly transform your life.

Together, they explore what it really means to:

• Find purpose after retirement

• Create more joy without "doing more"

• Set boundaries as a helper or caregiver

• Stay healthy and strong as we age

• Use accountability and community to break old patterns

• Choose growth, even in life's next chapter

You'll also hear JJ reflect on the journey from the early days of Fit to Love to now — how podcasting became a living, evolving conversation, and why connection with listeners matters more than download numbers.

This episode is a reminder that healing doesn't have to be dramatic. Sometimes it's one new habit, one brave boundary, or one small mindset shift at a time.

If you've ever wondered:

• What's my purpose now?

• How do I take care of myself without guilt?

• Is it too late to change?

This conversation will feel like sitting down with a wise friend who's walking the path right alongside you.

✨ The next 14-Day Manifestation Challenge starts soon — join at jjflizanes.com/14day

JJ welcomes back Michelle Reittinger, author and host of The Upside of Bipolar, for a bold, hope-filled conversation that challenges common cultural narratives around bipolar disorder. Together, they unpack "myths" that can keep people stuck in fear and identity-based labels—and invite listeners into curiosity, root-cause investigation, and a more empowering view of symptoms, healing, and personal responsibility.

In This Episode, We Cover

· Michelle's story: diagnosed in 1998, years of intensive psychiatric treatment, polypharmacy, and a breaking point that became a turning point

· Why a diagnosis can feel like an "answer," but often doesn't explain why symptoms started

· The difference between a "cluster of symptoms" and an identified disease mechanism

· Why curiosity (vs. shame) changes everything—especially with intense symptoms like rage, anxiety, and dissociation

· The "detective" approach: identifying triggers, patterns, and underlying contributors

· The role of foundational health (nutrients, sleep, nervous system regulation) in emotional resilience and symptom reduction

· Why suppressed emotions can show up as anxiety, depression, physical pain, or crisis states

· How identity, victimhood, and relationship dynamics can unconsciously reinforce staying stuck

· A grounded reminder: do not abruptly stop medications—tapering/changes should be done slowly and safely with qualified support

Notable Takeaways

· Labels can reduce curiosity—and curiosity is often the doorway to change.

· "Symptoms" are information; the goal is to explore what they're pointing to.

· The most empowering question isn't "What's wrong with me?" but "What happened—and what is my system asking for now?"

· Healing can have a social cost: if your "sick role" has been rewarded with attention, protection, or lowered expectations, getting better can feel threatening (even subconsciously).

Resources Mentioned

· Anatomy of an Epidemic by Robert Whitaker

· The Body Keeps the Score by Bessel van der Kolk

· Healing Back Pain by Dr. John Sarno

Connect with Michelle

· Website: theupsideofbipolar.com

· Free resource: Mood Cycle Survival Guide (available on her site)

· Podcast + book links are also on her website.

What if the deepest wound you carry isn't about what happened to you—but about whether you ever felt truly held by life itself?

In this powerful and intimate conversation, JJ is joined by a longtime soul sister, healer, and registered nurse who shares a deeply transformative experience that healed a lifelong sense of abandonment—not just from people, but from God, Source, and existence itself.

After more than 25 years of personal growth, spiritual practice, and emotional work, she realized there was still an existential fracture beneath it all: a quiet belief that life was not fully safe, that love could be given endlessly but not fully received, and that stepping into her full calling might come at a devastating cost.

What unfolded during a sacred, carefully held journey became a profound reclamation of safety, trust, and belonging—at the nervous-system and soul level.

This episode is not about escapism or quick fixes. It's about:

· How early experiences can fracture our sense of safety with life itself

· Why control often masks a fear of annihilation or abandonment

· What true surrender actually feels like in the body

· Healing the relationship with Source beyond religion or belief systems

· Learning to receive love after a lifetime of giving

· Releasing the fear that being fully seen could destroy you

· Embodiment, integration, and lasting nervous-system change

JJ also speaks to the importance of integrity, preparation, emotional readiness, and sacred containment—emphasizing that this kind of work is not for everyone, not always, and never casual.

At its core, this is a conversation about remembering who you are, restoring trust in life, and discovering that you were never alone—not for a single breath.

If you've ever felt:

· Like you don't fully belong here

· Afraid to take up space or be fully visible

· Deeply loving but unable to receive

· Spiritually devoted yet quietly disconnected

· Called to something more but scared of the cost

This episode may speak directly to your heart.

This is not an escape from life.It's an invitation into the truth of who you really are.

http://Karinrose.love

In this solo episode, JJ explores a pattern she sees repeatedly in women who are deeply caring, self-aware, and ready for healing—yet hesitate when it's time to invest in themselves.

Drawing from real conversations with women who are caregivers, over-givers, people-pleasers, and survivors of illness, JJ unpacks the deeper truth beneath statements like "I can't afford it." This episode isn't about money—it's about self-worth, nervous system safety, and the beliefs that quietly keep women putting themselves last.

Through the energetic lens of the Year of the Snake and the approaching Fire Horse, JJ explains how awareness alone isn't enough. Healing often requires an embodied choice—a stretch that tells your nervous system, I am worth being supported.

In this episode, you'll hear:

• Why women so often deprioritize their own healing and well-being

• How abandonment wounds, caregiving roles, and people-pleasing show up around money

• What not investing in yourself communicates to your body and subconscious

• Why aligned investment can be a powerful act of re-patterning and self-trust

• How choosing yourself builds confidence, self-love, and emotional resilience

This episode is an invitation to value yourself differently in 2026—not by doing more, but by believing you're worthy of support, healing, and expansion.

✨ If you've been feeling the call to invest in yourself but something keeps stopping you, this conversation may help you understand why—and what's possible on the other side of that choice.

Ready to change this pattern? let's chat. http://jjflizanes.com/apply

JJ reconnects with longtime friend and homeopath Avghi "Avi" Constantinides (yes—at Trader Joe's!) for a timely conversation on natural immune support during the holiday season and beyond. Avghi breaks down what homeopathy is, how it differs from symptom-only approaches, and shares her go-to homeopathic "flu season trio" that many of her clients use for prevention and support. The conversation then expands into entrepreneurship, education, and why responsiveness and follow-up are essential for building a sustainable, heart-centered business.

• How a chance reconnection at Trader Joe's brought Avghi into the West Coast Women Rising community

• Avghi's origin story: from the UK, to South Africa, to the U.S.—and the life-changing realization that shaped her work

• What homeopathy really is and how it treats the whole person rather than isolated symptoms

• What to expect from a first homeopathic consultation—and why it goes deep

• How emotional and life events often correlate with physical symptoms

• Avghi's recommended homeopathic flu-season support trio:

  • Influenzinum (homeopathic preparation of the current flu strain)

  • Briar Rose (commonly used for respiratory and chest vulnerability)

  • Thymulin / Thymuline (supporting immune and white blood cell function)

  
  

• How and when to take these remedies, including travel and exposure support

• Why combo remedies can help—and when individualized care is needed

• Avghi's community work supporting first responders and clinics during the 2025 California fires

• Building a business as a solopreneur:

  • Early grassroots marketing before social media

  • Why fast follow-up builds trust (and slow follow-up loses opportunities)

  • The importance of visibility, service, and giving back to your field

  
  

• Educational pathways through Avghi's school—from personal learning to professional practice

• Why every household should have a basic homeopathic first-aid kit

• Practice: HomeopathyForLife.com

• School: LASchoolofHomeopathy.com (site name transitioning)

• Email: avghi@homeopathyforlife.com

• Homeopathic First Aid List: JJFlizanes.com/firstaid

Shedding the Skin Needed to Set the Stage for 2026

As we step into 2026, it's tempting to rush ahead with goals, intentions, and action. But energetically, we're still in a powerful transition period. Although the calendar year has changed, the Fire Horse doesn't officially arrive until February 17, meaning we're still completing the work of the Year of the Snake.

In this solo episode, JJ explores why this moment is less about acceleration—and more about discernment, honesty, and conscious completion.

The Year of the Snake asks us to shed old skins: identities, coping strategies, emotional patterns, and roles that once served us but now limit who we're becoming. Before the Fire Horse ignites momentum, visibility, and bold action, we're being invited to get clean, aligned, and intentional.

In this episode, you'll hear:

• Why 2026 begins as a threshold year, not a starting line
• Key themes of the Year of the Snake and what we're still meant to release
• What Fire Horse energy amplifies—and why preparation matters
• The three essential lessons to integrate before February 17
• How to move into 2026 authentically, intentionally, creatively, and passionately
• Why shedding before sprinting creates sustainable momentum

This episode is an invitation to slow down just enough to listen—to your body, your nervous system, and your deeper truth—so that when the Fire Horse arrives, you're ready to ride it with clarity instead of chaos.

✨ If you feel the call to shed a skin and enter 2026 more aligned than ever, this conversation will meet you right where you are.

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In this special intergenerational conversation, JJ and Doug sit down with JJ's parents—ages 80 and 77—for an honest and heartfelt discussion about happiness, perspective, and what truly matters in life.

Together, they reflect on how priorities evolve over time, what contributes to lasting fulfillment, and how ideas around success, relationships, and happiness have changed across generations. The conversation also turns toward the future, with thoughtful reflections and intentions for 2026—what to protect, what to release, and what feels most important moving forward.

This episode isn't about giving advice from a pedestal; it's about sharing lived wisdom, curiosity, and hope through real conversation.

Whether you're looking ahead to a new year, reassessing your goals, or simply craving perspective that cuts through the noise, this episode offers a grounding reminder of what creates a meaningful life—no matter your age.

• What happiness really means at different stages of life

• How priorities and goals evolve over time

• Reflections on love, relationships, and fulfillment

• Intentions and hopes for 2026

• What still matters most, no matter the generation

In This Episode, You'll Learn

• Why contrast (the thing you don't want) is not personal—and not a sign you "did it wrong"
• How survival responses (fight/flight/freeze/fawn) can pull you out of flow automatically
• Why self-compassion is the "neutralizer" that helps you move from emotional intensity back to steadiness
• The "three buckets" model: lack → neutrality → abundance
• How to move from "what I don't want" into true clarity using three powerful questions
• The difference between observing vs. judging—and how judgment instantly shuts off flow
• How momentum builds around whatever you focus on (and how to choose differently moment-to-moment)
• Why you may need to practice the feelings you want (and build new neural pathways)
• What "command" means through I AM statements
• How "create" activates imagination and future-self alignment to become a stronger energetic match

Ready to practice the 5 C's (and build real momentum toward what you want)? Join JJ's FREE 14-Day Manifestation Challenge starting January 5th.

You'll get daily guidance, simple assignments, and practical tools to help you move from contrast into clarity—then command and create from a more aligned, empowered state.

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In this episode, JJ Flizanes welcomes back cardiologist and bestselling author Dr. William Davis to celebrate the launch of his newest book, Super Body, available starting today, December 16, 2025, wherever books are sold.

Together, they explore why our culture's obsession with quick weight-loss fixes — from low-calorie diets to trending injectables — often leads to muscle loss, more visceral fat, faster aging, and even higher long-term health risks. JJ brings in her Date Your Body philosophy to highlight why resistance training is essential for staying strong, youthful, and independent as we age.

You'll hear about:

• Why cutting calories leads to major muscle loss and metabolic slowdown

• The dangers of visceral fat & myosteatosis

• How the microbiome and endotoxemia influence body composition and aging

• The overlooked roles of collagen and hyaluronic acid

• Simple resistance-training approaches for real, lasting results

• A new way to think about investing in your long-term health

Resources

• Get Super Body now on Amazon, Barnes & Noble, or your favorite bookstore

• Explore the Date Your Body program at http://JJFlizanes.com/apply

Real Women. Real Results. Real Transformation.

In this very special episode, JJ checks in with past participants of Date Your Body to share where they are now, what has stayed with them, and how their lives have continued to transform long after the program ended.

This is more than a "weight loss" conversation. These women healed their nervous systems, rewrote emotional patterns, and finally created a loving, sustainable relationship with their bodies. And the ripple effects? They've touched every area of their lives — relationships, confidence, movement, self-worth, energy, and even identity.

In today's episode, you'll hear:✨ The long-term impact of nervous system–based body healing✨ The emotional breakthroughs that still influence their choices today✨ How they shifted from survival mode to embodied safety✨ Why old patterns didn't return — and what replaced them✨ Real stories of weight released, inflammation lowered, mobility restored, and confidence rebuilt✨ The spiritual and identity-level changes they never expected

And of course… their incredible wins:

💜 Julie (82) — healed six decades of digestive pain, released weight effortlessly, and now loves her body for the first time in her life.💜 Mandy — not only transformed her body, but even changed her entire family system through her healing.💜 Karon — can finally look in the mirror and say "I love you" with complete truth.💜 Traci — released 17 pounds, gained muscle, reclaimed athleticism, and found pride again.💜 Ami — ditched emotional eating, restored flexibility, and now feels strong and peaceful in her body.

This episode is proof: When you stop fighting your body and start listening to it, your whole life changes.

If you've ever felt stuck, frustrated with your body, or tired of doing "all the right things" without results, this conversation will show you what's truly possible when the nervous system feels safe and supported.

✨ Want to experience this transformation for yourself?

Applications are now open for Date Your Body 2026 and the 2026 Empowerment Programs.

If you're ready to change your relationship with your body, food, self-care, and emotional patterns…👉 Apply here: JJFlizanes.com/apply

This is your invitation to finally feel at home in your body.

If you've been doing all the right things—eating clean, exercising, thinking positive—and still not seeing the changes you want…

This week I recorded a solo show on Weight-Loss Resistance and the REAL reasons your body isn't changing. (Spoiler: it's not your willpower, your discipline, or your motivation.)

I break down the top 7 metabolic blocks I see over and over again, plus the missing link that most programs ignore:👉 your nervous system. Because your body cannot release weight or inflammation when it doesn't feel safe.

And to help you go deeper, I'm giving you FREE access to my classic Metabolic Makeover Program — normally $500 — updated with new insights on hormones, belly fat, stress, gut health, and nervous-system healing.

🎁 Get the Metabolic Makeover FREE

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Inside the program you'll get:✓ The Weight-Loss Resistance Quiz✓ The 7 root causes of metabolic resistance✓ How to balance hormones naturally✓ What really drives belly fat✓ How to end emotional + metabolic burnout✓ Workbook, audios, videos, and step-by-step guidance

If you've ever felt like your body is working against you… this will help you understand exactly why — and what to do next.

Your body is not the problem. It's the messenger.

I hope this episode — and the free Metabolic Makeover — help you finally understand what your body has been trying to tell you.

With love, JJ

This week's episode is a powerful and intimate conversation with my dear friend and dream expert Kelly Sullivan Walden, inspired by her newest book, Dreamifesting. I open up about some recent struggles and how my dreams have been helping me process emotions I didn't even realize I was holding. Together, we explore the unconscious, the mirror effect, and how our lessons and wounds reflect our relationship with ourselves.

If you've been feeling stretched, overwhelmed, or in transition, this episode may be exactly what your soul needs.

About Kelly: Kelly Sullivan Walden is a bestselling author, dream expert, certified hypnotherapist, and spiritual teacher who helps people decode the wisdom in their dreams and use their subconscious as a tool for healing and manifestation. Learn more about her work at Dreamifesting.com and KellySullivanWalden.com.

As we move into the holiday season, I want to lovingly remind you to choose you — your peace, your healing, and the version of yourself you want to step into in 2026.

There are still limited spaces available for: ✨ Date Your Body (starting January) ✨ Rewiring Your Core Wound Patterns

If you're craving more peace, alignment, joy, and a deeper commitment to yourself, don't wait — both programs close at the end of the year. What better holiday gift to yourself than the investment in your own emotional freedom and expansion?

Apply here (free): 👉 jjflizanes.com/apply

Wishing you a safe, balanced, heartfelt, deeply appreciative Thanksgiving.

What if the key to transforming your relationships isn't getting everyone else to change — but changing your own energy first?

In this powerful episode, JJ Flizanes explores the science and soul behind how one person's healing can ripple through an entire family system. You'll hear from Mandy Bobo, a longtime member of JJ's community who's completed Date Your Body Beta, Rewiring Your Core Wound Patterns, Healing the Mother Wound, and Connect Couples Retreat.

Through her personal transformation, Mandy didn't just change her own life — she shifted the energy of her entire family: her husband, her kids, her sister, and even her mother.

This episode dives into:💫 The energetic science behind why one regulated nervous system can calm others💫 How mirror neurons and heart coherence create emotional "contagion"💫 Why your healing work automatically changes your relationships💫 Real-life proof that "it only takes one person" to transform a family system💫 Mandy's inspiring journey through the Empowerment Programs and what happened next

If you've ever felt like you're the only one doing the work, this episode will remind you how powerful your presence truly is.

Key Quotes:

"Your calm becomes a tuning fork for the people you love." "When one person regulates, the entire system reorganizes." "You don't have to push people to change — you become the frequency that invites it."

Mentioned in this episode: 🎟️ Masterclass: Why Your Body Won't Change Until Your Nervous System Feels Safe💸 Normally $97 — FREE with code JJ97 http://jjflizanes.com/bodychange

🌀 Empowerment Programs 2026:

· Date Your Body (3 months)

· Rewiring Your Core Wound Patterns (9 months)

· Radiant Sacred Circle (9 months)

· Connect Couples Retreat (Mexico)

· VIP Private Intensives

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In this episode, JJ Flizanes shares a powerful conversation from the Unleashing Your Manifestation Power live event — featuring members of her community who have experienced real transformation through support, accountability, and connection.

This success panel explores one of the most overlooked truths about personal growth and manifestation: you can't do it alone.

We dive into:

• 💫 Why having the right people in your life — mentors, peers, coaches, and friends — determines how far you'll go.
• 🌱 How accountability isn't about pressure or perfection, but about being witnessed in your evolution.
• 👁️ The importance of being around people who can see the version of you that you're becoming, even before you can.
• 🤍 The difference between being supported and being enabled — and how true support challenges you to embody your vision.
• 🔥 What it means to "lead and be led" in community, so you're not just learning — you're living it.

Whether you're on a healing journey, building your next-level vision, or ready to expand into a more empowered version of yourself — this episode will remind you that growth happens in relationship.

✨ Ask yourself: Who's leading me right now? Who has my back when I forget what's possible? Who's holding the vision for me when I can't see it yet?

If you're ready to find your people — those who will help you embody your vision and hold you accountable to your highest potential — apply for JJ's 2026 Empowerment Programs now at http://jjflizanes.com/apply